Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-01
THE LATEST NEWS.

AT Cork some OF Tue HOUSES Weio AiuAAA-
mated and decorated screnely in honor of the
Queens Jubilee. A crowd smashed all the
lighted windows, shouting ITO He'll with the
Queen and cheering for Parnell. The police,
who we're pelted with stones, charged and dis
persed the mob.
Later particulars show that the recent
ferry accident at Pako on the Danube river,
was much worse than was at first reported
The boat was fcarfuly overloaded. having 400
persons on board 1t is stated that the boat
men were intoxicated. The panic on board
WAS fearful The bodies rescued give evil
dence of q fearful death struggle in their tat
tered clothes and distorted faces. 1t is esti-
mated that 500 persons were drowned Over
2OO bodies have been recovered The recog-
milton of bodies by friends on shore is attended
with heart-rcnding scenes.
Among the amendments to the constitution
of the Amagamated association recommended
by the committee and adopted, was one chang
ing tho requirements OF membership, which
opens the association of nearly every kind of
help employed about the Pitsburg mills.
Another amendment provides that on and after
April !, 1SSS, no member OF the association
can be identified with the knights of Labo..
f. Trigg, east :rn passenger agent OF the
Ohio and Chesapeake railroad, committed
suicide the other day, by drowning at Niagara
Falls
james D. Malcow, a lunatic, escaped from
the insane asylum at st. Joseph, Mo, re-
Gently, and went to his home at Cover
twenty n,ilcs distant, where lie attempted to
70 al
Allen. They made desperate resistance and
finally overcame the maniac, who has been
returned to the asylum.
William Barnes, ar Eng,shnan Of wealth
and "blood," celebrated her majesty's jubilee
by hanging himself at Erie, Pennsylvania,
the tirstday of the jubl,e,.
--Thirty-five of the so-called "perfection-
lists" of Cincinnati, who hold, among other
things, that their leader, Mrs Martin, sis
God' and that hor sister, Mrs. Brooks, sis
Christ have been expelled from the M.tho-
dist church in That city.
Maxwell, alias Brooks, the murderer of
Prcl!er at S.. Louis. is to b. hanged. The ST.
| plene Court refused to reverse the decision
of the court The prisoner has been notified
| by his attorneys, and was much detected.
Brooks counsel, will now, it is said, move for
rehearirg of tho case, and if this fails an
attempt will be made to get it before the Unit
cd States Supreme Court on constitutional
points. The date OF the execution is fixed
for July ~.
1t is understood at Washington that Secre-
tary Lamar will DO nominated to fill the ex-
listing vacancy i'll tho Supreme Court Sera-
tor Ransom, of North Carolina, is talked of in
connection with the interior portfolio.
The Interstate commerce com mission
will ask Congress next winter for a great deal
more than $4,000, the allowance made them
for expenses during the current year. The
commission has great deal more work on its
hands than 1T was ever supposed it could have
and it begins to appear that q bureau that is
to have control of the commerce of the coun-
try will need q great many clerks OF the
present appropriation 40 per cent. goes fol
salaries, half as much more will be consumed
in travelling expenses and Clerk hire will more
| than exhaust what will remain, without pro-
viding for the thorough performance of the
work.
p. McCourt, of Washington City, has re-
ceived letter from Gladstone in response *
note urging him to visit this country. Mr.
Gladstone says his age, as we'll as en-
gagements, prevent it, but he never loses OPP
strengthen the union of the country and Civ
ing weight to the Judgment of America on the
great Irish question.